Neil Postman Quotes
It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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I have superdry skin, and it's really temperamental, and I feel like oils are the best thing for my face.
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I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.
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It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.
